Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to learn that your salted caramel mocha latte is destroying society and we didn't invent fermented foods — they invented us Hi there! A few days ago, the word whimsy started appearing everywhere on my feeds. Get-ready-with-me videos, pink home décor, TikTok
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start using churro umbrellas, Stilton apertures, and meeting random strangers to eat fried starchy tuberous vegetables Hi there! You're probably wondering how my diet is going. No? Doesn't matter. This week I'm using AI to navigate
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start you personal war. This time vs Jamie Oliver, René Redzepi, and all the foodies out there Hi there! Apparently, war times call for culinary wars. Some cool reading along this issue. Hope you like it. Take care, don't be
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to enjoy your last meal, living like a monk, dining like a king, and drinking Butter Tea Hi there! One day, if I'm lucky, I'll have grandchildren who might ask me: "Grandpa, what were you doing during the
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start baking, lowering the grocery bill, and cooking on a luxury yacht Hi there! Two ideas caught my attention this week, and you'll find them linked around in this issue. The first is a reframe of the 1% concept — not
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start asking questions, discover the real nature of fungi and drink stacked water (whatever that is) Hi there! And Ramadan Mubarak! This week we have fasting and butter, mushrooms and chili ganache. I think we're good, then. Piero ✹Merlin Sheldrake,
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start making omelettes with Rosalía, licking the rims, and rediscover the lower senses Hi there! In less than seven days I attended the opening of an Olympic Games, found myself in the same room as George Clooney, had lunch at the chef&
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start your day having lunch Bengaluru, dinner in Milan, drinks in Tokyo, and a football party in Santa Clara Hi there! I'm writing from the Olympic city of Milan, where things are hectic. You know, we're hours away
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start collecting bread tags, watching food doppelgangers, and melting gold on your risotto even if it has no flavor at all Hi there! You know what? It seems that luxury spending has shifted dramatically and "stuff" doesn't signal
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start drinking the greatest wine in the world while having soup in the morning and shark meat in the evening Hi there! Later today I'll be all in with Drops of God Season 2, even if I'm pretty
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start serving the best portion of a good person's life, while watching rom-com bits and air-frying banana slices Hi there! This 2026 is having a rough start. Some soft vibes are needed. Hope you find some here today. Piero ✹Allen
Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start considering that man is the pie that bakes and eats himself on a neverending glucose roller coaster Hi there! Has 2026 started well for you? I don't put much stock in New Year's resolutions, but I do
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start the ending of the year, or ending what you started too late, dreaming about yaupon tea, minibar shots and grandmacore Hi there! I could bore you with a navel-gazing essay about the year just passed. But I care about you too
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start a newsletter cursing in Italian and dreaming about French oysters you'll never have Hi there! Have you heard the news? UNESCO has officially recognized Italian cuisine as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Well, as we say in Rome
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start baking surreal biscuits, spreading avocado on messy open sandwiches because - you know - nobody wants to be a foodie anymore Hi there! How's your binge-watching level these days? I'm obsessed with Pluribus, in which a hive
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to set up a fabulous grazing board, reserve the best chef's table and refuse having meals served in a slapdash fashion Hi there! Sprints have become the heartbeat of many contemporary companies — intense, time-boxed pushes that force focus, collaboration, and rapid
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to feel like an amoeba, then start baking 20+ kinds of Christmas cookies after you cooked for Thanksgiving Hi there! I was reading this super-cool feature by Ronald W. Dworkin called The Amoeba and the Mathematician. The essay argues that in the AI
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start baking with heart-shaped tins, freezing egg wraps and dreaming about ant-fermented yogurt Hi there! I don't know about yours, but my days have been chaos. Last week I wasn't sharp enough to write a decent newsletter, so
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to serve meals drawing inspiration from Russian film makers and Internet subcultures, while dreaming about healthy drinks and sandwiches with pickles replacing the bread Hi there! Have you ever heard about the Kuleshov Effect? It is simple: show an actor's neutral
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to meet with crazy theoretical physicists, wild pickle makers, and audacious cheese&coffee drinkers Hi there! I was watching this video with the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, where he talks about trees, and it completely flipped my perspective. Everyone looks at a
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to feel trendy for using beef tallow, because - in a landscape of infinite digital choice - recipes survive only if they seduce Hi there! We have the 8 Biggest Food Trends for 2026, according to Whole Foods. A few caveats: Whole Foods
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start reading Captain Marvel's Cookbook while drinking cold-brew coffee in a ghost kitchen, where I’d sell my soul to have a taste of a magnificent life that’s all mine Hi there! I have a story for you. After
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to bake pumpkin Basque cheesecake and make sourdough gelato while living the last days of social media Hi there! The other day I was thrilled because a pizza place I loved in Rome opened in my city. Pizza it's still good,
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Welcome to Secret Breakfast / The best place to start cooking with Brad Pitt, dating messy chefs and spreading spicy Taipei butter over rice Hi there! Have you heard the news? Wise House executive chef is expected to announce that using flour in federal kitchens raises food poisoning risk, despite lack